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Syrian Migrant Sues Facebook Over Fake News Distribution

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  • Syrian Migrant Sues Facebook Over Fake News Distribution

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38599385

    A Syrian migrant who posed for a selfie with Angela Merkel is suing Facebook after being falsely linked to terrorism in posts shared on the social media network....

    "I was first linked to attacks when my picture was circulated as being one of the Brussels attackers due to perceived resemblances between us," he told the BBC. ... "But I kind of just hoped it would go away on its own."

    And for a while, it did. However, another attack, on a crowded Berlin Christmas market, and the attempted murder of a homeless man in the same city by seven young migrants, once again saw Mr. Modamani falsely accused....

    [His lawyer, Chan-jo Jun,] has filed an injunction "seeking to prevent Facebook from publishing the slanderous image of the Syrian refugee Anas Modamani in the context of terrorist attacks."
    "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

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  • #2
    So, it's their position that Facebook is a "news source"? It seems they are upset with the notion that Facebook has not controlled the content of individual posters, not that Facebook themselves (itself?) posted the pictures as news?
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
      So, it's their position that Facebook is a "news source"? It seems they are upset with the notion that Facebook has not controlled the content of individual posters, not that Facebook themselves (itself?) posted the pictures as news?
      Basically. The contention is that - for the purposes of German law, at least - Facebook should be classified as a media company rather than a technology company. That argument was actually made by the German justice minister back in November 2016, according to the Al-Jazeera coverage of this story.
      "The Jesus Christ who saves sinners is the same Christ who beckons his followers to serious use of their minds for serious explorations of the world." - Mark Noll

      "It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading." - John Wesley

      "Wherever men are still theological, there is still some chance of their being logical." - G. K. Chesterton

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JB DoulosChristou View Post
        Basically. The contention is that - for the purposes of German law, at least - Facebook should be classified as a media company rather than a technology company. That argument was actually made by the German justice minister back in November 2016, according to the Al-Jazeera coverage of this story.
        Interesting.
        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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        • #5
          Sounds like a scheme to suppress free speech.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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